Winner: Jordan Spieth
Around the wider world of golf: George Coetzee won the Tshwane Open on the ET; So Yeon Ryu won the World Ladies Championship on the LET; Peter Malnati won the HSBC Brasil Champions on the Web.com Tour; and Ji-Hee Lee won the Yokohama Tire PRGR Ladies Cup on the JLPGA (bangkokbobby has the details).
Whew. Can we seize our breath now?
Before the tournament, on Morning Drive and the Pre Game Show, nobody thought we'd see much in the way of low scores at the Copperhead Course. It had just played too hard all week.
But on Sunday the floodgates opened and, as Jordan Spieth cited in interviews after the spherical, he and third round chief Ryan Moore unexpectedly saw gamers going low with most effective five or 6 holes left to move. And most of the leaders, only Ryan Moore failed to get below par; his putter chose the wrong second to go bloodless. In the give up, Spieth's -2, Sean O'Hair's -4, and Patrick Reed's -5 positioned them in a three-manner playoff.
I don't imply to belittle Sean O'Hair's effort -- before he were given sidetracked with the aid of the pursuit of perfection (like such a lot of promising gamers), many concept he is probably the Next Big Thing in American Golf -- as it turned into an terrific overall performance and the primary clear indication we've had in a while that he should end up a serious element in tournaments going ahead. And Henrik Stenson another time confirmed us that his recreation is getting lower back in shape, just in time for main season.
But the reality remains that Spieth and Reed had been the big draws. After their Ryder Cup overall performance at Gleneagles and their persisted correct play on the grounds that -- let's not neglect that they have got three international wins between them over the previous few months -- they have got become the poster boys for US golf. And whilst you add that Patrick got his first win by way of beating Jordan in a playoff at the 2013 Wells Fargo occasion... Well, seeing the two in every other playoff was simply what the scores parents ordered.
And they failed to let us down. During Sunday's spherical and the 3-hollow playoff, Reed and Spieth calmly put on a scrambling show the likes of so that you can be pointed out for weeks. Reed's par save on the first playoff hollow from a plugged lie simply under a greenside bunker's lip absolutely stands proud, yet each gamers performed high-quality recovery after exceptional recovery all day. And then Spieth sealed the deal with a 28-foot putt for birdie.
The word is that Spieth will soar to #6 within the global when this week's rankings come out. It's properly to know that Limerick Summaries won't weight him down, as he appears poised to collect pretty some of them going ahead:
The Gleneagles duo returned
As combatants. Spieth appeared unconcerned.
?My loss at Quail Hollow
Was quite hard to swallow,?
Said Jordan. ”This time YOU get burned!” The photo came from the photo page at PGATOUR.com.
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